I’m inclined to agree with him. The government has done everything possible to disarm the pilots and copilots, making it almost impossible for any of them to qualify to carry a weapon. If they were actually permitted to be armed, which apparently few of them are, then fewer air marshals would be necessary.
The numbers cited here are pretty telling.
With armed pilots and armed passengers there would have been no 911. Arabs with box cutters? Taste my hollow point 45.
As I said above, a ruse can make the pilot open the armored door to respond to a threat.
Then, the CS grenade gets chucked and the plot thickens (assuming that the “wasteful” scanners and stuff at check-in are also taken out).
I mention CS because I found out that TSA takes a dim view of gas masks in carry on. Geiger counters too, though I could not figure out why.